Transcript: Innovation - Leaving a Legacy
- Narrator:
- It's an enormous logistical exercise to put the Games on.
- John Furlong:
- You realize when you get involved in the Olympic movement, it takes a lot of moving parts and a lot of friends
- Gordon Campbell:
- General Electric has been a great partner for the Olympics for a long time. It certainly has been a great partner in our Olympic bid, and you realize that as big as they are, this is an enormously human company, whose success is very much rooted in the fact that they care and that caring has made a big difference for us.
- Peter Foss:
- GE looks for an area in every city that is close to the Olympics to leave a nice legacy gift for them, and the skating rink came up as a thought about 5 years ago.
- Elysa Allan:
- This is a very exciting legacy for GE to be creating the GE plaza, a wonderful ice skating rink here at Robson square in the heart of Vancouver. It's going to be a great facility for the people of Vancouver all throughout the holidays, but especially during the Olympics. We've also provided to the community of Whistler a new 64-slice CAT scan. They've never had that technology up in that part of the province.
- Dr. Annie Goreau:
- The Whistler Health Care Center is a diagnostic treatment facility. We're not a hospital, but we are seeing a tremendous amount of trauma, so what the CT scan is going to enable us to do is image those injuries that don't critically need to be transferred to the city, as we can achieve a final diagnosis here in the center.
- Narrator:
- So what we're leaving in Whistler is really a great benefit for the community, and something we feel really good about, something that we're happy to be able to do.
- Dr. Annie Goreau:
- It came as a surprise. It came as a gift and basically it saved the day because at that time we were not sure if we were going to be able to get the machine because of the cost involved, and that was a huge help.
- Narrator:
- When I think about legacy, I think there are traditional things, the impact of the Games, the physical changes in the city. Then there's the human legacy. There's the effect on people. It has the ability to communicate with you in a most positive way. That is the legacy that I hope that lingers and lasts the longest.
- Narrator:
- I think the greatest legacy that you really have to leave is there really isn't very much that we can't accomplish when we reach for what's best, and that's when we reach as high as we can.
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